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=== Races === There are twlelve different races that you can choose from in EyAngband. Some races are restricted as to what profession they may be, and each race Has its own adjustments to a character's stats and abilities. The race stat adjustment lasts throughout the game, raising the maximum levels the character can otherwise acheive in this stat. Most races also have intrinsic abilities. Human The human is the base character. All other races are com- pared to them. Humans can choose any class and are average at everything. Humans tend to go up levels faster than any other race because of their shorter life spans. No racial adjustments or intrinsics occur to characters choosing human. Half-Elf Half-elves tend to be smarter and faster than a human, but not as strong. Half-elves are slightly better at searching, disarming, saving throws, stealth, bows, throwing, and magic, but they are not as good at hand weapons. Half-elves may choose any class and do not receive any intrinsic abilities. Elf Elves are better magicians then humans, but not as good at fighting. They tend to be smarter and faster than either humans or half-elves and also have better wisdom. Elves are better at searching, disarming, perception, stealth, bows, and magic, but they are not as good at hand weapons or digging. Elves may choose any class except Paladin. They are resistant to attacks involving bright light. Hobbit Hobbits, or Halflings, are very good at bows, throwing, and have good saving throws. They also are very good at searching, alchemy, disarming, perception, and stealth. They will be much weaker than humans, and no good at melee fighting. Halflings have fair infravision, so they can detect warm creatures at a distance. Hobbits can choose between being a warrior, mage, or ranger. They have their dexterity sustained. Gnome Gnomes are smaller than dwarves but larger than halflings. They, like the halflings, live in the earth in burrow-like homes. Gnomes make excellent mages, and have very good saving throws. They are good at searching, disarming, perception, alchemy, digging, and stealth. They have lower strength than humans so they are not very good at fighting with hand weapons, but are quite capable of using ranged attacks. Gnomes have fair infra-vision, so they can detect warm-blooded creatures at a distance. A gnome may choose between being a warrior, mage, or priest. Gnomes are intrinsically protected against paralysis and some slowing effects. Dwarf Dwarves are the headstrong miners and fighters of legend. Since dungeons are the natural home of a dwarf, they are excellent choices for a warrior, paladin, priest or mystic. Dwarves tend to be stronger and tougher but slower and less intelligent than humans. Because they are so headstrong and are somewhat wise, they resist spells which are cast on them. Dwarves also have very good infra-vision because they live Underground, and are quite adept with a shovel. They do have one big drawback, though. Dwarves are loudmouthed and proud, singing in loud voices, arguing with themselves for no good reason, screaming out challenges at imagined foes. In other words, dwarves have a miserable stealth. They can never be blinded. Half-Orc Half-Orcs make excellent warriors and decent priests, but are terrible at magic. They are as bad as dwarves at stealth, and horrible at searching, disarming, and perception. Half-Orcs are, let's face it, ugly. They tend to pay more for goods in town. Half-Orcs do make good warriors, for the simple reason that Half-Orcs tend to have great constitutions and lots of hit points. Because of their preference to living underground to on the surface, half-orcs resist darkness attacks. Half-Troll Half-Trolls are incredibly strong, and have more hit points than any other character race. They are also very stupid and slow. They will make great warriors and iffy priests. They are bad at searching, disarming, perception, and stealth, but decent at digging. They are so ugly that a Half-Orc grimaces in their presence. They also happen to be fun to run. Half-trolls always have their strength sustained. Dunadan Dunedain are a race of hardy men from the West. This elder race surpasses human abilities in every field, especially constitution. However, being men of the world, very little is new to them, and levels are very hard to gain. They can play all classes. Their constitution cannot be reduced. High-Elf High-Elves are descended from those among the Elves who heard and answered the call from the gods at the very beginning of time, before the sun and moon were made, and lived in the Blessed Realm for many thousands of years before returning to mortal lands. Because of this, they are far superior in terms of abilities when compared to their lesser Elven kindred, and are able to be priests as well as all the other classes that normal Elves can be. They can also see into the invisible world of ghosts and wraiths. However, they find new experience even harder to come by than Dunedain: and their wisdom is still a little suspect. And like normal Elves, they resist attacks involving bright light. Angel Angels come from heaven to spread the causes of good, by any means necessary. While they start out as being rather weak and fragile, as they gain experience they are awarded new abilities and they eventually become powerful in all regards. Angels possess special racial abilities. Belonging to a higher plane, the experiences of this world do not leave a strong impression and them and they gain levels slowly. In addition, killing non- evil creatures may sometimes be necessary for their survival, but it goes against the basic fibre of their being and doing so provides them with only minimal experience rewards. Angels can play all classes. Demon Demons are the evil spawn of hell. Chaotic and unpredictable, some demons realize that the quickest path to promotion is by destroying all their rivals, and thus temporarily join the side of good to cleanse the dungeons of Angband. They are the weakest of the races at their creation, but their abilities grow with their levels and they eventually gain immense power. From a certain level, Demons gain special racial abilities. Low level demons are quite stealthy, but as they grow more powerful their stealth rapidly decreases. Death and mayhem being commonplace to them, they gain levels slowly. They can play warriors, mages and rangers. Nilbog The nilbog (sing. and plural) are a race shrouded in mystery. They are slightly shorter than humans and totally hairless. No one knowns whence they come from or why; even they themselves have no memory of their past. They accept this calmly, confident that when the time will come for the purpose of their existance to be known they, shall be up to the task. They are creatures of unmagic, and disrupt the magic around them. This provides them with innate protection from mana based attacks, but they are barred from most classes as spellcasting is incredibly difficult to them and magical weapons and armor that they weild will quickly lose its power. Rattikin The rattikin are a race of humanoid rats who live in the outskirts of human society. They are very dexterous, and totally immune to disease. They make good warriors and rangers, and decent mages and spellswords. Felpurr The felpurr are a noble race of humanoid felines. They are dexterous and smart, and can play all classes well. They have an innate luck, and will often find useful stuff in their adventures in the dungeon. === Recommended combinations of Race and Class === Warrior Mage Priest Ranger Paladin Mystic Bard Spellsword Human Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Half-Elf Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Elf Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes Hobbit Yes Yes No No No No Yes No Gnome Yes Yes Yes No No No No Yes Dwarf Yes No Yes No Yes Yes No No Half-Orc Yes No Yes No No No No Yes Half-Troll Yes No Yes No No No No No Dunadan Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes High-Elf Yes Yes No Yes No No Yes Yes Angel Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Demon Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes Nilbog Yes No No No No No No No Rattikin Yes Yes No Yes No No No Yes Felpurr Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes === Stat Bonus Tables === Stat, hit dice, and experience points per level modifications due to race are listed in the following table. STR INT WIS DEX CON CHR Hit Dice Rqd Exp/level Human 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 +0% Half-Elf -1 +1 0 +1 -1 +1 9 +10% Elf -1 +2 +1 +1 -2 +1 8 +20% Hobbit -2 +2 +1 +3 +2 +1 7 +10% Gnome -1 +2 0 +2 +1 -2 8 +25% Dwarf +2 -3 +2 -2 +2 -3 11 +20% Half-Orc +2 -1 0 0 +1 -4 10 +10% Half-Troll +4 -4 -2 -4 +3 -6 12 +20% Dunadan +1 +2 +2 +2 +3 +2 10 +80% High-Elf +1 +3 -1 +3 +1 +5 10 +100% Angel * * * * * * 9 +90% Demon * * * * * * 10 +120% Nilbog +2 +1 +1 +3 +3 0 10 +20% Rattikin -2 +2 -1 +4 -1 -4 7 +10% Felpurr -1 +2 0 +2 -2 0 8 +20% *see below === Angel Progression chart === LEVEL STR INT WIS DEX CON CHR ABILITY Cherub 1- 4 -3 0 +1 0 -4 +1 Detect Evil Seraph 5- 9 -2 0 +2 0 -2 +1 Call Light Deva 10-19 0 +1 +3 0 0 +2 Spear of Light Planetar 20-29 0 +1 +3 0 0 +3 Spear of Light Archon 30-39 +1 +2 +4 0 +1 +4 Orb of Draining Solar 40-49 +2 +3 +5 0 +2 +5 Prot. from Evil Archangel 50 +3 +3 +5 0 +3 +6 Prot. from Evil Resistances and inherent abilties (cumulative): Cherub - None. Seraph - Sustain Wisdom, Permanent Light (radius 1). Deva - Bravery, Feather Falling. Plaentar - Resist Light, See Invisible, Sustain Charisma. Archon - Resist Fire, Cold, Confusion, Free Action. Solar - Resist Acid & Electricity, Regeneration, Slow digestion. Archangel - Resist Chaos, Hold Life. === Demon Progression chart === LEVEL STR INT WIS DEX CON CHR ABILITY Lemure 1- 4 -4 -4 -6 -4 -4 -6 Quasit 5- 9 -2 -4 -6 -2 -2 -6 Imp 10-14 -1 -2 -6 -1 -1 -7 Tengu 15-19 0 0 -5 0 -1 -7 Blink Bodak 20-24 0 0 -5 0 0 -7 Fire Bolt Vrock 25-29 0 0 -4 0 +1 -8 Fire Bolt Hezrou 30-34 +1 0 -4 0 +2 -8 Fire Bolt Glabrezu 35-39 +2 +1 -3 0 +3 -8 Fire Ball Nalfeshnee 40-44 +3 +2 -3 0 +4 -9 Fire Ball Pit Fiend 45-49 +4 +2 -2 0 +5 -9 Fire Ball Balrog 50 +5 +3 -2 +1 +6 -10 Plasma Ball Resistances and inherent abilties (cumulative): Lemure - None. Quasit - Bravery. Imp - Resist Fire. Tengu - Resist Blindness. Bodak - Resist Darkness, Sustain strength. Vrock - Resist Acid. Hezrou - Sustain Constituion. Glabrezu - Resist Nether. Nalfeshnee - Regeneration. Pit Fiend - Resist Chaos. Balrog - Immune to Fire.